Illinois · Nonprofit
MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP
MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,232 to it, the largest being JOHN ULLRICH FOUNDATION TRUST BUSEY TRUST CO - TRUSTEE ($179,232). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,769 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- James Millikin Trust Ashared funderslocal
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio match
- Freestate Community Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
70% of MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $55k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 82% · 2019 76% · 2020 50% · 2021 52% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
79% of MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 74 organizations that share them.
- James Millikin Trust Ashared funderslocalIL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freestate Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Southwest Kansasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alcon Cares Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foe #2224 Charity Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 20 20 Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glenn Shaw Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co Theportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Filkins Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Otto and Hanna Duetsch Private Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lions Club of Chaskaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP?
- MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,232 to it, the largest being JOHN ULLRICH FOUNDATION TRUST BUSEY TRUST CO - TRUSTEE ($179,232). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $261,232 in grants to MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP?
- JOHN ULLRICH FOUNDATION TRUST BUSEY TRUST CO - TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $179,232 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing